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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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